page_title: 1966
section_title: January
hierarchical_section_title: 1966 / Deaths / January
caption_attribution_description: English: Abubakar Tafawa Balewa
context_page_description: 1966 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1966th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 966th year of the 2nd millennium, the 66th year of the 20th century, and the 7th year of the 1960s decade.
  In February, Luna 9 made the first controlled landing of a spacecraft on the Moon. The Cultural Revolution began in China in May.
context_section_description: January 1 – Vincent Auriol, French politician, 16th President of France (b. 1884)
  January 3
  Sammy Younge Jr., American civil rights activist (b. 1944)
  Marguerite Higgins, American journalist (b. 1920)
  Rex Lease, American actor (b. 1903)
  January 4 – Georges Theunis, 24th Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1873)
  January 10 – Ignacy Oziewicz, Polish general (b. 1887)
  January 11
  Alberto Giacometti, Swiss sculptor (b. 1901)
  Hannes Kolehmainen, Finnish Olympic athlete (b. 1889)
  Lal Bahadur Shastri, Indian activist, 2nd Prime Minister of India (b. 1904)
  January 14
  Sergei Korolev, Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer (b. 1907)
  Bill Carr, American Olympic athlete (b. 1909)
  January 15
  Samuel Akintola, Nigerian premier of the Western region and Aare Ona Kakanfo XIII of the Yoruba (assassinated) (b. 1910)
  Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, Nigerian politician, 1st Prime Minister of Nigeria (assassinated) (b. 1912)
  Ahmadu Bello, Nigerian premier of the Northern region (assassinated) (b. 1910)
  January 17 – Vincent J. Donehue, American stage director (b. 1917)
  January 18 – Kathleen Norris, American writer (b. 1880)
  January 22 – Herbert Marshall, English actor (b. 1890)
  January 25 – Saul Adler, Russian-born British-Israeli expert on parasitology (b. 1895)
  January 31
  Elizabeth Patterson, American actress (b. 1875)
  Arthur Percival, British general (b.1887)
caption: Abubakar Tafawa Balewa
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